Naomi Campbell blames lawyer for 'fraud and deception' at charity ban appeal — The supermodel is appealing the ban against her, telling an appeal tribunal that fake emails were used to misdirect funds.
Asher White Shares New Song "Stage Diva": Listen — We are very excited for our prolific Artist To Watch Asher White’s forthcoming album Love Aggregates, which comes later this month. The lead single “The Eagle Is No Omen” was an eccentric banger with an equally entertaining…
Criminal Instinct Release Fast, Hard New Surprise EP: Listen — Atlanta hardcore miscreants Criminal Instinct have been around for a decade and a half, but they don’t release too much music, possibly because the band members are constantly getting into fights and getting thrown…
Julia Jacklin Shares New Song "I Wish": Listen — “Oh, I wish I had help back then/ Oh, I wish I had better friends.” That is a truly heavy sentiment, expressed about as directly as it can possibly be. It’s the opening line of “I Wish,” the devastating new single from the…
Listen to Michael Stipe’s New Song “Hum Desiderata” — The R.E.M. frontman’s debut solo album is in the works
Nation Of Language Share New Song "The Conversation": Listen — In April, Nation Of Language released a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Tougher Than The Rest” for a limited edition 7″. Now, the Brooklyn synthpop trio is finally sharing the B-side, an unreleased track called “The…
The Strokes' New Album 'Reality Awaits' Is Here — Everyone was mad about the Auto-Tune. I wasn’t mad about the Auto-Tune. Sure, Julian Casablancas kind of sounds like a malfunctioning robot, but what sucked about “Going Shopping” and “Falling Out Of Love” is how utterly…
Ekko Astral Are Going on “Indefinite Hiatus” — The D.C. punks say they will no longer release their album The Beltway Is Burning “any time soon”
New satellite images show Europe’s disappearing rivers due to drought — Half of Europe’s land is experiencing drought with rivers running low from the Danube to the Rhine.
Fcukers Announce New Ö Remix EP NüYork — Eli Escobar’s flip of “If You Wanna Party, Come Over to My House” is out now
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Anthony Green & Zayna Youssef Cover Porno For Pyros' "Pets": Listen — Almost immediately after Jane’s Addiction’s initial 1991 breakup, frontman Perry Farrell and drummer Stephen Perkins formed Porno For Pyros, a band that had what was arguably an even more chaotic run. Most of…
The Cure Will Release A "Dark" Album, Then A "Really Poppy" One — All of a sudden, the Cure once again have a ton going on. In 2024, the legendary band returned with Songs Of A Lost World, their first album in 16 years, and it fucking ruled. Even as that rollout was happening, Ro
Can a student ID be used for voting? More Republican-led states are banning it — New bans on using student IDs for voting in Indiana and New Hampshire have sparked lawsuits after creating the latest hurdles to the ballot box for the U.S. voting-age group least likely to vote.
Tinashe Announces New Album 'Popstar': Hear "Crash Out" — Not that long ago, Tinashe was a cult-beloved singer who was stuck in seemingly endless major-label purgatory, despite obvious talent and charisma, as well as a pretty decent little run of hits. Ever since she finally…
Belgium’s largest wildfire on record spreads towards German border — Largest recorded wildfire in Belgium forces 600 residents to evacuate as blaze spreads towards German border towns.
Deep Purple Reunite With Ritchie Blackmore For The First Time In 33 Years — Way back in 1966, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore co-founded the British rock band Deep Purple. Singer Ian Gillan joined up in 1969, and the band went on a hugely influential and commercially successful…
Phoebe Bridgers Announces New Album 'Lost Weekend' — Phoebe Bridgers is finally back on the grid. The massively popular and influential indie singer-songwriter spent the spring on a unique tour that managed to be hush-hush and a media sensation all at once: Starting in Roswell,…
OpenAI slows down Astra development due to cybersecurity concerns — Meta slowed down development of its Astra model as it couldn't 'rule out critical cyber capabilities.'
My Chemical Romance "Ambulance" Live Debut: Watch — Back in 2012, My Chemical Romance released their single “Ambulance” — part of a series of tracks that were collected on the 2013 box set Conventional Weapons. They went 14 years without ever playing that song live, but they…
André 3000 Releases New 7 Piano Sketches Short Film — The 12-minute film was inspired by his 2025 EP and is now streaming on Mubi
Levon Helm Studios Sues Amy Helm, Alleging Years Of Self-Dealing — The drama surrounding Levon Helm Studios continues. The late legend Levon Helm, most famous as the drummer and singer for the Band, founded the Woodstock, New York studio and music venue in the ’70s. After Helm…
I've been making coffee the same way for years and it tastes like sadness — then I watched someone just... add one extra second to their pour and suddenly it's different. Now I'm mad at my routine.
DONKEY.BAS — IBM PC (1981) — Play DONKEY.BAS in your browser — the classic IBM PC game by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen, for the 45th anniversary of the IBM PC.
Way Dynamic Signs To Jagjaguwar, Announces First North American Tour — Melbourne-based Dylan Young is the mind behind Way Dynamic, the latest signee to vaunted American indie label Jagjaguwar. Last fall, Way Dynamic released Massive Shoe, an album that broke through to streaming
Noah Kahan Celebrates Furries At Pittsburgh Show — Noah Kahan is appropriating Will Toledo’s culture. The viral folk star’s eventful Great Divide tour happened to stop by Pittsburgh last night while the furry convention was in town, and he was for some reason very excited about…
Sleep Announce New Album 'Hempispheres': Hear "The Morrisist" — In June, Sleep returned with the announcement of a new lineup and 2026 tour dates, along with the release of a new song called “Have Spacesuit Will Travel” and a comic book. Now, it’s album time. Hempispheres, the…
Protomartyr Announce Fall Tour — With support from Accessory and J.R.C.G., as well as one date with the Jesus and Mary Chain
Premature Evaluation: Olivia Rodrigo 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love' — Here’s the main thing I want you to know about Olivia Rodrigo’s new album: Track 12 is an almighty fucking banger. “expectations,” the penultimate song on Rodrigo’s third full-length you seem prett
Dying 4 Shares New Song "Topaz": Listen — Dying 4 release their debut EP Perish Songs next month. The indietronica project of Blue Bendy guitarist Joseph Nash unveiled “Strafe” last month, and now he’s sharing the sprawling, twitchy tune “Topaz.” “‘Topaz’ is a track trying to…
Smirk Shares New Song "Abide": Listen — We’re getting a new Smirk album at the beginning of next month. Nick Vacario, the mastermind behind Smirk, recently announced Speculative Fiction alongside its lead single, “Dogs Years.” Today, we get another glimpse of the forthcoming albu
The Silent Weight of Culture on Women | Preethikha S | TEDxChennai Institute of Technology Women — A woman's life quietly rewritten before she even chooses it - that's where this talk begins. It unpacks how society has trained women, in the name of culture, to lower their…
Die Spitz Are Moving Fast — “We’re gonna try to open the pit at the Olivia Rodrigo show,” Kate Halter grins. A month earlier, this would’ve been an insane thing to say. For one thing, Olivia Rodrigo shows don’t have pits. Rodrigo plays arenas, and those arenas are full of seats…
Grammys Announce New Categories And Rules For 2027 — The 2027 Grammys are still a long ways off, but as always, the Recording Academy is using the offseason to tinker with their signature event. Today they’ve announced five new categories, bringing the total to 100, as well as…
Mallory Hawk Shares New Single "Caretaker": Listen — Philadelphia-based indie rocker Mallory Hawk used to lead the Brooklyn punk band Customer, and she’s played in groups like Trace Mountains and M(h)aol. Later this summer, Hawk will release Chinook, her first solo album, and it’
Wanna Feel Old? This Is Phoebe Bridgers' 'Tonight Show' Band Now — On Tuesday, Phoebe Bridgers was a surprise guest on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. Her backing band was a group of very skilled kids, nodding to the “Lost Boys” she sang about in her Peter Pan-inspired comeback…
Elvis Costello Knocks Oasis, Defends Olivia — Elvis Costello will say whatever. He doesn’t care. In the past, that tendency has gotten him into trouble. He was famously banned from Saturday Night Live earlier in his career, and he once said some drunken, racist stuff against Ray
Greg Freeman Readies New Album and Tour — “Indu” leads the Vermont singer’s John Congelton-produced All Set the Bone
The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets — A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week — Chang-Rae Lee’s A Tender Age, Virginia Eubanks’s A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving, and Téa Obreht’s Sunrise all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks…
Boy George Exits Jesus Christ Superstar Amid Backlash Over AI Pro-Israel Song — A few days ago, Boy George admitted to using “AI for good.” That “good” was a new reggae song in support of Israel’s genocidal regime. Now, that “good” is having some repercussions. Boy George’s…
Lorde on Spotify’s AI Song Descriptions: “We Don’t Want This” — On Instagram, the singer wrote that an ”inaccurate” AI-generated summary of “Current Affairs“ “limits free interpretation"
Listen to Four Tet’s Surprise New 🕈︎♓︎■︎♑︎♎︎♓︎■︎♑︎⬧︎ Album — The latest under his Wingdings moniker technically came out in June on limited-edition vinyl—and now it’s available to stream
Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug 🐞 — For many years, I sometimes discovered that commands I was sure I had run were no longer present in my Z shell history file (~/.zsh_history). In this article, I will show you how I tracked down the bug. Spoiler: ultimately,…
Actress Hayden Panettiere dies aged 36, US media report — A representative for the actress confirmed the news to US outlets but did not provide further details of her death.
Laura Veirs Shares New Song "Arc Still Bends": Listen — A decade ago, veteran singer-songwriters Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs got together as a trio and released their self-titled case/lang/veirs album. A 10th-anniversary reissue, featuring the previously unreleased…
Marina Herlop Readies New Album Dja Dja — The Catalan composer and experimental musician will self-release her follow-up to 2023’s Nekkuja
So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year — Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.
Perennial Share New Song "Ready! Steady! Go!": Listen — Perennial are keeping the party kicking. The New England trio has been making us dance with the irresistible Modernism singles “What’s New On The Beat Scene” and “Modernism,” and now they’re doing it again with “Ready!…
Lizzo’s New Album 'Bitch' Fails To Crack Billboard 200 — Did you know it’s Bitch Summer? It officially started a couple weeks ago when Lizzo released her new album Bitch. Apparently the world hasn’t caught on yet, because Bitch hasn’t cracked the Billboard 200. Her last album,…
Israeli authorities filmed treating Palestinians with aggression on Eid — Israeli authorities have been filmed acting aggressively against Palestinians under occupation during Eid al-Adha.
Steven Major Sees List of Factors in ‘Drip, Drip Higher’ of Long-End Bonds — Steven Major, global macro advisor at Tradition Dubai, says, “the focus is Jackson Hole already” for the bond market as he examines the factors he sees contributing to the move higher in the long end…
Rethinking the power of sleep in depression | Alison Huckenpahler | TEDxStLouis — NOTE FROM TED: Please do not look to this talk as a substitute for mental health advice and consult a medical professional before modifying treatment. This talk only represents the speaker's…
Sylvan Esso Announce New Album 'Ow ∞': Hear "Concrete Glen" — Hey, you know what’s a good song? Motherfucking “Svefn-g-englar,” the deathlessly beautiful 1999 classic from Sigur Rós. I’d read a whole lot about Sigur Rós before I finally bought an import copy of the Ágætis…
Energy Stocks Soar to Record as Oil Rises on Trump’s Hard Line — Energy stocks are closing in on record levels reached earlier this year amid the Middle East war as investors see diminishing prospects for a near-term ceasefire that could ease the standoff in the crucial Strait…
Samsung reportedly set to ditch this potential Galaxy S27 camera feature — No variable aperture next year.
Built for every Fold: Spigen's Galaxy Z Fold 8 lineup is the best yet — Drop and everyday protection for a Galaxy Z Fold 8 requires an extra level of case engineering because it’s such...
Townies React To Wednesday’s “Townies” With New Song “Wednesday” — “Townies” by Wednesday — that’s a good song. The best song of 2025, in fact. Townies, a Los Angeles-via-Boston emo band, tweeted shortly after the Bleeds release, “Wait til they hear Wednesday by Townies.” Now,…
Parts & Labor Share New Song "Arterial Material": Listen — Way back in the ’00s, New York’s Parts & Labor made a version of smeary, psychedelic warehouse noise-rock that actually rocked, like with riffs and choruses and stuff. After breaking up in 2012, Parts & Labor are back, wi
Rustie Shares New Track "AVATARA888": Listen — After a prolonged absence that he only interrupted to release the 2024 single “Black Ice Mudra,” the Scottish electronic maximalist Rustie has been making a quiet return this year. Without posting any announcements or putting any…